1. Social
1.1. Town Criers
1.1.1. Oral Traditions
1.1.2. Trusted
1.1.2.1. Newspapers initially untrusted
1.1.2.2. Only source of information
1.2. Literacy
1.2.1. Rise in 1700's allowed newspapers to flourish
1.2.2. Dropped w/ Television and Internet
1.3. Audience
1.3.1. Major problem initially
1.3.2. Grew to become dominant
1.3.3. Dropped as technology advanced again
2. Technological
2.1. Printing Press
2.1.1. Johannes Gutenberg
2.1.2. Allowed Mass Production
2.2. Television
2.2.1. Around 1940
2.2.2. Sapped audience from papers
2.2.3. Drop in Literacy
2.3. Internet
2.3.1. Further sapped audience from papers
2.3.2. Online Newspapers
2.3.3. Further drop in literacy
3. Political
3.1. Seditious Libel Laws
3.1.1. Peter Zenger
3.1.2. Led to Freedom of Speech Amendment
3.2. Stamp Act
3.2.1. 1765
3.2.2. Charged 1 cent for each printed page
3.2.3. Overturned a year later due to mass rioting
3.3. Political Parties
3.3.1. Owned Papers
3.3.2. Printed only their side
3.4. Yellow Journalism
3.4.1. William Randolph Hearst
3.4.2. Joeseph Pulitzer
3.4.3. Increased Sensationalism
3.4.3.1. Marked as the cause of the Spanish-American War